Cow company shouldn't hold its breath over Roos money

Roos Foods, the Kenton cheese company whose troubles put Delaware on the listeria map, has a cow company in Baltimore chasing it down for $236,000 in unpaid debts.

Cloverland Dairy Limited Partnership filed suit in Baltimore City Circuit Court in August, the same month Roos Foods director Ana Roos sued her own company for unpaid rent. Complications in the Cloverland debt case prevented a default judgment claim from going ahead until early this month.

An attorney representing Cloverland didn't know about Roos' listeria issues and the shutdown order from the Food and Drug Administration until told by a reporter. The attorney's response during a return call from the reporter: "I just called my client and gave them the bad news."

Official state shell

A bill to designate the channeled whelk as the official state shell has passed both the House and Senate and is headed next to the governor's desk for his signature. The idea to name a state shell was put forth last year by Allyson Willis, now a sixth grader at Louis L. Redding Middle School.

Willis originally wanted the jingle shell to be the official state shell but compromised on the channeled whelk after a suggestion from the office of Rep. Quinn Johnson (D-Middletown). Johnson became the primary sponsor of the bill in the House. The measure passed the House in January and the Senate on Wednesday.

The state shell in New Jersey is the knobbed whelk and in Virginia it's the Eastern oyster.

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